Are we rewarding mediocrity? It sure seems like it.
We now live in an age where excellence is no longer seen as the gold standard. Schools in some districts have done away with traditional grade cards because they give children negative feelings. Criticism is frowned upon because students feel bad about themselves. Cursive writing is gone because most kids lack the patience to master the craft. We are a nation of dabblers.
In some places, little league teams give out trophies to everyone, regardless of whether or not there is a real reason. People have joked about giving trophies to kids who just show up. Really?
In the labor force, people do just enough work to keep their job. Nobody, it seems, is passionate about doing a great job at anything and “close enough” is one of the most common phrases used today.
Homes are built with OSB (oriented strand board– a fancy way to say wafer-board). They are thrown together in no time and a few years down the road they are in need of repair.
Organizations like ISO emerged in the world of manufacturing and business, but, nobody plays by the rules and it seems that no one takes them seriously. There are programs like “5S” and “Six-Sigma” (Lean Engineering), but, the manufacturing world is still plagued with poor quality.
Young people want to jump from school into the job market and immediately land in the corner office without actual experience. Others leave college and start their own business without any management experience, no job history aside from flipping burgers, and no people management skills. But, they can learn a new cell-phone app lickitty split.
Digital music is often very poorly mixed. Audio tracks in digitally filmed movies are so bad that music drowns out dialog and volume fluctuates from deafening music and sound effects to church mouse conversations. I have to fiddle with a remote constantly just to hear the actors. Documentaries are the worst.
Customer service? I’ve heard of that once.
I am tired of performance coaching and political correctness, warm fuzzies and all that touchy feelie garbage! Managers should be great role models– show up for work on time. They should be efficient and highly effective. They should have their priorities straight. They should find the best and brightest recruits and bring them on-board. Then, pay them enough to keep them.
Your business should be a talent pool. Develop the best workforce you can. They make your business run smoothly. BUILD A TEAM OF WINNERS– not a group of whiners and losers. By the time someone is in their early twenties, if they don’t have a good work ethic, chances are they never will. Pitch ’em and shoot for the first-round draft choice. You want to fill your team with rising stars.
In my school of thinking, nobody gets a trophy without earning it. STRIVE TO BE NUMBER ONE.
Remember this: In tennis, the runner-up is the loser.
REACH FOR THE STARS!
We now live in an age where excellence is no longer seen as the gold standard. Schools in some districts have done away with traditional grade cards because they give children negative feelings. Criticism is frowned upon because students feel bad about themselves. Cursive writing is gone because most kids lack the patience to master the craft. We are a nation of dabblers.
In some places, little league teams give out trophies to everyone, regardless of whether or not there is a real reason. People have joked about giving trophies to kids who just show up. Really?
In the labor force, people do just enough work to keep their job. Nobody, it seems, is passionate about doing a great job at anything and “close enough” is one of the most common phrases used today.
Homes are built with OSB (oriented strand board– a fancy way to say wafer-board). They are thrown together in no time and a few years down the road they are in need of repair.
Organizations like ISO emerged in the world of manufacturing and business, but, nobody plays by the rules and it seems that no one takes them seriously. There are programs like “5S” and “Six-Sigma” (Lean Engineering), but, the manufacturing world is still plagued with poor quality.
Young people want to jump from school into the job market and immediately land in the corner office without actual experience. Others leave college and start their own business without any management experience, no job history aside from flipping burgers, and no people management skills. But, they can learn a new cell-phone app lickitty split.
Digital music is often very poorly mixed. Audio tracks in digitally filmed movies are so bad that music drowns out dialog and volume fluctuates from deafening music and sound effects to church mouse conversations. I have to fiddle with a remote constantly just to hear the actors. Documentaries are the worst.
Customer service? I’ve heard of that once.
I am tired of performance coaching and political correctness, warm fuzzies and all that touchy feelie garbage! Managers should be great role models– show up for work on time. They should be efficient and highly effective. They should have their priorities straight. They should find the best and brightest recruits and bring them on-board. Then, pay them enough to keep them.
Your business should be a talent pool. Develop the best workforce you can. They make your business run smoothly. BUILD A TEAM OF WINNERS– not a group of whiners and losers. By the time someone is in their early twenties, if they don’t have a good work ethic, chances are they never will. Pitch ’em and shoot for the first-round draft choice. You want to fill your team with rising stars.
In my school of thinking, nobody gets a trophy without earning it. STRIVE TO BE NUMBER ONE.
Remember this: In tennis, the runner-up is the loser.
REACH FOR THE STARS!
